A common question for many who are interested in doing data analysis and visualization on their own is, “What analytics books should I read?” Here's a list of 10 we recommend for novices and even those who are already fans but want to know more.

It's mid-March. The time when many of us in the US go mad, filling out millions of brackets in the hopes of predicting the next men's college basketball champion. I'm one of those crazy sports fan, and this is how I used Watson Analytics to fill out my bracket.

Are you suffering from data exhaustion? If you're not a data scientist, you might just be. Everyone in business is facing ballooning data volumes and the mandate that all decisions and actions be data-driven. However, if you take just 1 minute and 23 seconds of your time, you might be able to approach data with an new and improved attitude.